The Revelation of "Another One Bites The Dust"

Every morning when I wake up, my alarm goes off and whatever song is on the radio is a message from God to me. This morning, I was already awake, and answering questions on the internet, thinking about past and future, and of the click click click of nows going past, when the radio comes on my alarm clock. I got up to shut it off and the song started, so I am standing there anticipating the message from God. I know the song by the opening music and think to myself "This can't possibly be my message for today?" But I listen anyway:

Steve walks warily down the street,
with the brim pulled way down low
Ain't no sound but the sound of his feet,

Woah! Is God talking about me being a self-contained individual in the world? Never heard that in this song before...

machine guns ready to go

The click click click (machine gun) of momentary "nows" I am carrying in my thoughts as I am literally sitting on the edge of my bed in front of the alarm clock anticipating the next part of the revelation...

Are you ready, Are you ready for this
Are you hanging on the edge of your seat
Out of the doorway the bullets rip
To the sound of the beat

So the moments whiz by as I am listening to them die (another one bites the dust) thinking about the brief moments of a human (another one bites the dust.) and how they are the same (and another ones gone and another ones gone, another one bites the dust.) Then it gets personal:

Hey, I'm gonna get you too
Another one bites the dust

So now God starts talking about my trying to live at times without his help and my ego-centric view of my own importance (even after death)...

How do you think I'm going to get along
Without you when you're gone
You took me for everything that I had
And kicked me out on my own



Are you happy ? Are you satisfied ?
How long can you stand the heat


Out of the doorway the bullets rip


To the sound of the beat


Look out!

And there it was: "Look out!" My message for the day. Look out for my ego and self-importance ruining my machine gunning now that is so temporary and is all I have. Okay, so I am done right? Use the day wisely. But then God goes on...

There are plenty of ways that you can hurt a man

And bring him to the ground


You can beat him, you can cheat him


You can treat him bad and leave him


When he's down, yeah


But I'm ready, yes I'm ready for you
I'm standing on my own two feet
Out of the doorway the bullets rip
Repeating to the sound of the beat
Oh yeah


Another one bites the dust....

God is ready for me, and I can take it OR DIE. God wants me to stand on my own two feet - be like Him. I will never view THAT song the same way again!

Famous quotes by Happy Hiram

I do have a unique perspective on life:
People have their whole view of past and future backwards. The future is determined by our character, the past can be changed by our perspective. - Happy Hiram

On history:

Most of what most people have thought for most of history has been wrong. But that doesn't stop me from thinking. - Happy Hiram

On the universe:

Reality is a feverdream on the soul of non-existence - Happy Hiram

And my own special metaphors*:

Sex is a metronome to measure death by - Happy Hiram

*In college, dozens of people came up to me and say "Hey, you're the 'Sex is a metronome to measure death by' guy, right?" I was somewhat notorious for that line. 

You Can't Always Get What You Want...

The question (from Yahoo Answers Philosophy):

Why is it so? 

We do not get what we like and do not like what we get sometimes.

https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20140530104208AAcl52L

My Answer:
Picture a pizza pie. Take away two slices. What do you have left? Three quarters of a pizza? Not enough? An incomplete puzzle? An annoying asymmetry? 

Every atom and molecule in the universe is susceptible to change. DNA and Nebulae live to diversify and produce new things. Every aspect of the universe is poised to grow and change and pass away. It is never complete. 

Animals hunger, and seek those things they are geared to find. Cats play with yarn. Humans seek patterns in everything. We want that finished product, that whole pie in the sky that life can never be. It is our gift to seek it, and it is the universe's gift not to give it to us, so that we are always and forever seeking those missing pieces. 

We don't always get what we want or accept what we get because that would kill us.

What was the most touching thing anyone has done for you?

The Question from Yahoo Answer:
https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20140521072907AAijS7O

My Answer: When I was eighteen I was still wetting the bed. My family never told me my much older siblings had the same problem. Parents shamed me and ignored me, siblings mocked and blackmailed me. It was a horrible secret.

I told my best friend. He could have laughed, he could have judged me. What he did was CRY. He felt so bad for everything I was going through.

From that day on, I stopped wetting the bed.

Where did we come from

The question from YA!:

Philosophical discussion ...? 

(Just in your personal opinion) 

- Where did we come from? and where we will go?

I want you to try this thought experiment. 

Imagine infinite non-existence. If a ruler is infinitely long, every number possible (like 4527) and impossible (like minus minus beeblblatz) will eventually appear on that ruler. 

So, an infinite non-existence has every kind of non-existence possible in it, AND something impossible - existence! 

Now turn it around, and you have a little spot of reality (not little from OUR perspective but little compared to the infinity of infinities) that has x, y and z in it. Everything that is in that reality is determined by the invisible hand of the infinite sea of nothing. The infinite sea of nothing is so omnipresent and so multifaceted that it is an integral part of every atom (see superpositioning of electrons) and yet at every level it is invisible (because non-existent) except for effect. 

Now have this non-existence observe the world, as a colorless, formless, rootless consciousness attached unexplainably to the body of H, an animal roaming around this reality. 

Why is consciousness so ethereal, detatched and formless? Because it is the nothing observing itself in the one place where nothing can be something - reality. 

Thus God created the world, is unchanging, infinite omniscient and we are formed in his image, as shapeless unchanging observer. 

That is how we got here - creation.

On Dualism

Duality is a false god. It appeals to us because our minds filter ideas through continua (hot-warm-cool-cold; light-dull-dim-dark) and dualistic thinking 90% simplifies the universe. It allows for black and white thinking which is deeply satisfying and it allows the ineffable universe to feel within our grasp. 

But separating things creates TWO continua (heaven-purgatory-hell; sacred ground-ordinary ground-profane ground) and adds more and more theological complications until it resembles a man-made version of the ineffable universe, the ineffable theology so to speak. 

That then (the fact that dual logic is confusing) becomes a DEFENSE of dualism (life is a mystery.) 

Yes life is a mystery, but building a mystery cult around it is not an answer - it is parroting the question. 

Dualism does not work.

The question from Yahoo Answers:

https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20140515023109AAJ76pB

The Donkey and the Hooch

The question from Yahoo Answers:

Is an addiction really broken if you just remove it?

If you have a donkey that drinks all your bourbon and you separate the two, you now have your bourbon and a thirsty donkey.

Teaching the donkey to stop wanting the bourbon is fine, but he can't ever have any again or he'll go right back to being a bourbon drinking donkey. You cannot unmake a drinking donkey unless you keep it away from your hooch.

The kicker, is of course that donkey's have a bad memory and forget that they have been trained not to drink.

But yes, you can teach an old donkey new tricks, so long as he avoids his old ones.